UK: Who’s to blame for our lost boys?

Article here. Excerpt:

'Sadly, in a society low on trust and high on risk aversion, I can’t imagine many British men being prepared to volunteer as a role model. Our society’s growing “fear of boys” means that most older citizens now steer clear of youngsters. According to the Good Childhood Inquiry, the British are more wary of children and young people than any country in Europe. This fear runs alongside another distinctly unhealthy and widespread “fear of men”. A combination of feminist rhetoric and media obsession with paedophilia has turned every man into a potential child molester. In the words of one male interviewee, who gave up running an athletic club: “People think you’re a weirdo if you want to hang about with boys.” Indeed they do, to the extent that adults must now be cleared by the Criminal Records Bureau before even spending time in the same room as children.'